Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adc5e18c67fae4a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:10:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8485e2c3a839aa3f5f55496460b498c0 SHA-1: 073d32a98956f1a13cbe5a959fafa4ea409508ff SHA-256: adc5e18c67fae4a50e91afdb68b5ba5201bdb76e99cb5d4198fb388fc3d42156
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pdf+file+reducer+download+free'. This URL is part of a link farm designed to attract users searching for free PDF tools. The document body also contains this URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a broad distribution effort. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pdf+file+reducer+download+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.sersproducts.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302759/sozudamawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pupudoxep.reimaginepossibilities.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/9798518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.econatura.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681342/tabebisovixij_renuposeranibe_balekazoxuzeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.openmindimprov.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814056/7fe77a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6726/9532/files/42996505523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8114/5243/files/fuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7200/2974/files/kevigapirajojewemowoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5035/2296/files/autodesk_plant_3d_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0575/2997/files/navefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3956/2645/files/set_up_a_webserver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4550/6459/files/ceh_certified_ethical_hacker_all_in_one.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0522/0763/files/redezagodejuvopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/69511611873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tugogesobiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4691/9579/files/structure_of_inorganic_compounds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E2E 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 73f45a731b6088444404e1fb8a4ea6ca5da33c6db10ac1358ea9027ef0ded66f
font_01_sfnt_off00006f0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F0F 10096 bytes
SHA-256: d4a8db018a05ef2e2ebcce328af42f7bb72c7f3fd47d7b93f8c92d075ad73cbc

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